blady grass
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Beyond the entanglement of the beach scrub the way was open, though rough, with granite boulders half hidden among rampant blady grass.
From Tropic Days by E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield
We followed a foot-path of the natives, who seemed very numerous, which led towards another range west by south; and crossed several tea-tree creeks, Pandanus groves, and swamps full of a high blady grass.
From Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 by Ludwig Leichhardt
The hapless fly is impaled with an inch or two of the flowering spike of blady grass to which a portion of the white inflorescence adheres, and is released.
From My Tropic Isle by E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield
A lanky grasshopper with keeled back and pointed prow flew before me, settling on a leaf of blady grass, at once became fidgety and restless; flew to another blade and was similarly uneasy.
From My Tropic Isle by E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield
A few handfuls of blady grass supply a sheaf of missiles, and with such cheap ammunition the sportsman is justified in providing himself profusely when intent upon the destruction of shy birds.
From My Tropic Isle by E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield
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